This is the Middle East, known for its hilarious yet devastating imprecations, right? I’m sure someone can come up with an “allah yakhudhu” or something similarly subtle
Maybe some Vera Lynn is in order?
Session to give vote of confidence in progress.
Bennett thanks Netanyahu for his service, is heckled, and uses the heckling to make his point, that sitting together and compromising, uniting, is something he is proud of.
Lapid passes on his time other than to say his mother is embarrassed by Bibi.
Bibi vows to bring the government down.
And vote is done!
Next era will see what?
And… it’s done. Good bye and good riddance.
Bye bye, Bibi.
(I just wanted to say that.)
Hooray!
I won’t miss him.
He took a big swipe at Biden on the way out.
Netanyahu claimed that Biden, his “friend of 40 years,” asked him to keep their disagreements about Washington’s attempt to rejoin its nuclear agreement with Iran out of the public eye but that he had rejected his entreaties.
“In 1944, at the height of the Holocaust, Roosevelt refused to bomb the trains and gas [chambers], which could have saved many of our people. Today we have a voice, we have a country and we have a defensive force,” he said, in an implicit rebuke of Biden.
Good riddance.
Yea, a Bibi sentence usually consists of a noun, a verb and the Holocaust.
Incoming Foreign Secretary (and effective co-Prime Minister) Yair Lapid said today that one of his primary goals was to rebuild Israel’s relationship with the U.S. Democratic Party.
So it happened! Good luck to the new government, may they form a good, fair and competent one. And may Bibi end in jail, like others should too.
Yeah… I know…
Israel has jailed former PMs before, so it is a lot more likely than Trump ever seeing the inside of a cell.
Israel appears to have an election system that manages to screw up proportional representation. The Knesset should also be about twice as large as its current number of 120. But it might also be a place with such rigid ideological divides that no system would really work for it.
Here’s a new development:
The NY Times had an article about this as well (probably paywalled):
The proposed bargain includes Mr. Netanyahu’s admitting to some of the charges, all of which he still formally denies in court, in exchange for the prosecution’s downgrading the seriousness of one charge, dropping another entirely and allowing Mr. Netanyahu to avoid serving a jail sentence by instead performing community service, the two negotiators said.
The talks are currently stuck, however, because Mr. Netanyahu does not want to accept the charge of “moral turpitude,” a designation that would bar Mr. Netanyahu, the leader of Israel’s biggest right-wing party, from public office for seven years, the negotiators said.
“A lot can happen in [seven] years. The king might die. I might die. Or, maybe, the horse will learn how to sing.”
Unfortunately he is back:
What the fuck, Israel?
The whole world has fallen in love with arrogant, prone-to-corruption, tribalist (if not outright racist) autocrats!!!
Oh noes! The electorate voted for the candidates of their choice. The horrors!
There appears to be some sort of sarcasm here, but I’m not sure what exactly you’re trying to say. If it wasn’t clear, it’s my opinion that Israeli voters made a very bad choice here. Are you objecting to people stating political opinions in this forum?